His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet. At ...

The Bon tradition, Tibet’s indigenous spiritual system, experienced centuries of marginalization following the introduction and institutionalization of Buddhism in Tibet from the 7th century CE ...

Spiti Valley is a great alternative to Ladakh if you are keen to take a detour. It is a cold desert with breathtaking views that thrives in rain, and turns into a photographer’s paradise. It’s ...

This paper focuses on the speech synthesis modeling for Amdo-Tibetan dialect. We analyze the linguistic and phonetic characteristics of Amdo-Tibetan and present to use Latin letters as the synthetic ...

In Little Lhasa, a collection of essays and interviews, author Tsering Namgyal Khortsa takes us deep into the cultural and political world of the Tibetan-in-exile ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday led the nation in extending greetings to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on his 90th birthday, with prayers for his continued good health and long life.

Tibetan matriarchs played a pivotal role in shaping modern Tibetan history. Gyayum Chenmo and Jetsun Pema, the Dalai Lama's ...

Dalai Lama Turns 90: Kiren Rijiju & Pema Khandu Joins Celebrations In Dharamshala (VIDEO) Amid ongoing 90th birthday celebrations of the Dalai Lama, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju and Arunachal ...

It was a Great Escape in 1959 from Lhasa's Norbulingka Palace, the summer seat of the Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan Buddhism. Then just 23, the Dalai Lama had no option but to flee Tibet after it ...

What’s on our table Ah, Willy Wonka, where’s smell-o-vision when you want it? These gorgeous, aromatic, super ripe peaches came from the Tree-Ripe Fruit Truck. My colleague Mike Kornemann brought them ...

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The Dalai Lama has declared that his Gaden Phodrang Trust will identify his reincarnation, challenging China's claim to choose his successor. In his book, he stated his successor would be born outside ...